Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afterward, Farmer Abrell and his daughters Nancy Ruth and Rachel walked home up the road behind the church. In the light of the full moon, overflowing corncribs stood like sentinels. Rachel slipped her hand into her father's arm. After a few minutes he said, half to himself: "I reckon we've got things to be thankful...
...that first Christmas Eve, young Rector Clingman, 38, liked what he saw. There were 166 people in the little church -half of them children. "The children intrigued me," he said afterward. "They were underprivileged really . . . because of the estates they lived on, they had no playgrounds and little contact with other children...
...story goes that Tallulah fell for Actor John Emery because he reminded her of John Barrymore, o-n whom she had had a girlish crush. In any case, she knew, immediately on seeing him at a summer playhouse in 1937, that she wanted him. She rushed backstage afterward, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. As Emery recalls it: "She damn near knocked my tonsils down my throat...
Second, the Sanitation Department will retain samples of all food served for 24 hours afterward. But even the authorities who recommended the step admit it cannot prevent poisoning. At the most, saving food can only make the task of finding the offending dish easier...
...soon afterward, the critics lambasted the institution for presenting such a bourgeois item as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Then came an official bawling out. Today the repertory is stocked with ten plays by Soviet dramatists...